Waisted Carn vase

Waisted Carn vase

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Waisted Carn vase - 5⅜" (136 mm) high.

The small village of Nancledra is half-way down the Penzance road from
St Ives. It was here, three miles south-east of Carn Naun Point, that John
M Beusmans set up Carn Pottery at the Old Chapel in the early 1970s. John
was born in Hampshire and moved to Cornwall with his parents who ran a retail pottery shop. His parents, incidentally, made the lampshades supplied with Troika lamps. He studied throwing at Redruth Art College.

John's work is distinctive and his skills composite; he carries out the work of thrower, mould-maker and decorator. His pieces vary tremendously in shape,
size and nature, but are always instantly recognizable. All his work shows
a strong fascination with shape - some pieces morphing from one size and
shape at the front to another at the back.

All work is slip-cast, and John usually makes several moulds from a master,
each one incised with a different design. The colour is produced by applying
copper oxide and copper mixed with cobalt with a mop. John, who works with
one helper, fires his pots in an electric kiln at 1140°C.

There is a growing army of Carn collectors, and it is fortunate for them
that the pottery is still producing. The mark is a simple rubber stamp giving
the name or the name and address of the pottery.

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Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks by Geoffrey A. Godden

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